Surgical Treatment of Sporadic Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: A State of the Art Review by Sven-Petter Haugvik, Knut Jørgen Labori, Bjørn Edwin, Øystein Mathisen, Ivar Prydz Gladhaug

“…They are clinically diverse and divided into functioning and nonfunctioning disease, depending on their ability to produce symptoms due to hormone production. …”
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Isolation and Identification of Pyrene Mineralizing Mycobacterium spp. from Contaminated and Uncontaminated Sources by Christopher W. M. Lease, Richard H. Bentham, Sharyn E. Gaskin, Albert L. Juhasz

“…Mycobacterium isolates obtained from PAH-contaminated and uncontaminated matrices were evaluated for their ability to degrade three-, four- and five-ring PAHs. …”
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Alpha-Fetoprotein and Novel Tumor Biomarkers as Predictors of Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence after Surgery: A Brilliant Star Raises Again by Quirino Lai, Fabio Melandro, Rafael S. Pinheiro, Andrea Donfrancesco, Bashir A. Fadel, Giovanni B. Levi Sandri, Massimo Rossi, Pasquale B. Berloco, Fabrizio M. Frattaroli

“…However, at present, none of these tests can be recommended to survey cirrhotic patients at risk for HCC development because of their suboptimal ability for routine clinical practice in HCC diagnosis. …”
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Structural Health Monitoring of Precast Concrete Box Girders Using Selected Vibration-Based Damage Detection Methods by Zhengjie Zhou, Leon D. Wegner, Bruce F. Sparling

“…A box girder removed from a dismantled bridge was used to evaluate the ability of five different VBDD algorithms to detect and localize low levels of spalling damage, with a focus on using a small number of sensors and only the fundamental mode of vibration. …”
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<i>Pseudomonas simiae</i> WCS417 Strain Enhances Tomato (<i>Solanum lycopersicum</i> L.) Plant Growth Under Alkaline Conditions by Miguel A. Aparicio, Francisco J. Ruiz-Castilla, José Ramos, Francisco J. Romera, Carlos Lucena

“…The results obtained show the ability of the <i>P. simiae</i> WCS417 strain to induce medium acidification in the presence of bicarbonate to increase the SPAD index and to improve the growth and development of the tomato plants in calcareous conditions provoked by the presence of bicarbonate, which indicates that this bacteria strain could have a great potential as an Fe biofertilizer.…”
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Impacts of Pore-Throat System on Fractal Characterization of Tight Sandstones by Dengke Liu, Zhaolin Gu, Ruixiang Liang, Junwei Su, Dazhong Ren, Bin Chen, Chuanqing Huang, Chao Yang

“…Five types of reservoirs were identified, the best reservoir type has a high percentage of interparticle and dissolution pores but a low proportion of clay-related pores, and the differences in pore-throat connectivity of various types affect storage capacity significantly. The storage ability prediction models of various reservoir types are raised by integrated experimental data. …”
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Antitumor Activity of Whole-Plant Extracts from In Vitro Cultured and Wild-Growing <i>Clinopodium vulgare</i> Plants on a Panel of Human Tumor Cell Lines by Ani Georgieva, Inna Sulikovska, Tanya Toshkova-Yotova, Vera Djeliova, Sabrina Amiri, Nenad Tsonevski, Polina Petkova-Kirova, Krasimira Tasheva

“…The polyphenol, flavonoid content and antioxidant activity of the extracts as well as their antitumor efficiency against a panel of cell lines were analyzed. The ability of <i>C. vulgare</i> to inhibit cancer cell migration and induce apoptosis in the tumor cells was examined by wound healing assay and fluorescence microscopic methods. …”
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Advanced Metasurface-Based Antennas: A Review by Wanchen Yang, Jinghao Li, Dongxu Chen, Yue Cao, Quan Xue, Wenquan Che

“…As one kind of two-dimensional metamaterials, metasurface structures are widely applied in antennas due to the special abilities of manipulating the amplitude, phase, polarization states and the propagation modes of electromagnetic wave. …”
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Action inflexibility and compulsive-like behavior accompany neurobiological alterations in the anterior orbitofrontal cortex and associated striatal nuclei by Laura M. Butkovich, Sophie T. Yount, Aylet T. Allen, Esther H. Seo, Andrew M. Swanson, Shannon L. Gourley

“…Together, our findings point to the anterior OFC as a potential locus controlling action flexibility and compulsive-like behavior alike.…”
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Nafion®-Containing Solid Lipid Nanoparticles as a Tool for Anticancer Pt Delivery: Preliminary Studies by Maddalena Sguizzato, Elisabetta Esposito, Marcus Drechsler, Eleonora Gallerani, Riccardo Gavioli, Paolo Mariani, Federica Carducci, Rita Cortesi, Paola Bergamini

“…The protonation occurs selectively at nitrogen; hence protonated PTA maintains its ability to coordinate platinum via its phosphorus atom.…”
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Filtered dataset of Irish energy performance certificates: A data-driven approach for enhanced building stock modellingMendeley DataGithubSEAI NBER by Kumar Raushan, Tomás Mac Uidhir, Marisa Llorens Salvador, Brian Norton, Ciara Ahern

“…By publishing this standardised data-driven filtered EPC dataset, this research enables stakeholders, non-expert and expert alike, to leverage this higher quality input for characterising the Irish housing stock.…”
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Sustainable Additive Manufacturing: An Overview on Life Cycle Impacts and Cost Efficiency of Laser Powder Bed Fusion by Ramin Rahmani, Bashir Bashiri, Sérgio I. Lopes, Abrar Hussain, Himanshu S. Maurya, Raivo Vilu

“…This overview study reveals that implementing AM—specifically SLM—has the potential to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing. It underscores the ability of these technologies to promote sustainable and efficient manufacturing practices, thereby accelerating the shift from Industry 4.0 to Industry 5.0.…”
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Improved Real-Time Traffic Obstacle Detection and Classification Method Applied in Intelligent and Connected Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Environment by Luyao Du, Xiongjie Chen, Zhonghui Pei, Donghua Zhang, Bo Liu, Wei Chen

“…A new established dataset containing four types of traffic obstacles including vehicles, bikes, riders, and pedestrians is collected under different time periods and different weather conditions in urban environment in Wuhan, China. …”
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Multimodal Multiobject Tracking by Fusing Deep Appearance Features and Motion Information by Liwei Zhang, Jiahong Lai, Zenghui Zhang, Zhen Deng, Bingwei He, Yucheng He

“…Multiobject Tracking (MOT) is one of the most important abilities of autonomous driving systems. However, most of the existing MOT methods only use a single sensor, such as a camera, which has the problem of insufficient reliability. …”
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Orthogonal Capsule Network with Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Small Sample Hyperspectral Image Classification by Prince Yaw Owusu Amoako, Guo Cao, Boshan Shi, Di Yang, Benedict Boakye Acka

“…Integrating orthogonality into CapsNet reduces the network complexity while maintaining the ability to preserve spatial hierarchies and relationships in the data with a 3D convolution layer, suitably capturing complex patterns. …”
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Patient Perspectives on Engagement in Recovery after Hip Fracture: A Qualitative Study by Joanie Sims-Gould, Sarah Stott-Eveneshen, Lena Fleig, Megan McAllister, Maureen C. Ashe

“…Participants shared valuable insight into how their expectations for their recovery period compared to their lived experience and the role of physical activity in their ability to return to their prefracture activities. …”
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Posttraumatic Spinal Cord Injury without Radiographic Abnormality by Kivanc Atesok, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Andrew O’Brien, Yohan Robinson, Dachling Pang, Donald Deinlein, Sakthivel Rajaram Manoharan, Jason Pittman, Steven Theiss

“…Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a valuable diagnostic tool in patients with SCIWORA because of its superior ability to identify soft tissue lesions such as cord edema, hematomas and transections, and discoligamentous injuries that may not be visualized in plain radiographs and CT. …”
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High-Dimensional Cox Regression Analysis in Genetic Studies with Censored Survival Outcomes by Jinfeng Xu

“…For the high-dimensional (p→∞, p≪n) or ultrahigh-dimensional case (n→∞, n≪p), both the sure independence screening (SIS) method and the extended Bayesian information criterion (EBIC) can be further incorporated into the penalization methods for variable selection. …”
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Evaluation of the Selenotranscriptome Expression in Two Hepatocellular Carcinoma Cell Lines by Stefano Guariniello, Giovanni Di Bernardo, Giovanni Colonna, Marcella Cammarota, Giuseppe Castello, Susan Costantini

“…Additionally, interactomic studies were carried out to evaluate the ability of these down- and upregulated genes to interact between them as well as to identify putative HUB nodes representing the centers of correlation able to exercise a direct control over the coordinated genes.…”
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Red Currant (<i>Ribes rubrum</i> L.) Fruit Waste Extract and Juice as Potential Spasmolytic Agents by Maja Cvetković, Bojana Miladinović, Suzana Branković, Milica Randjelović, Slavoljub Živanović, Nemanja Kitić, Milica Milutinović, Miloš Jovanović, Dušica Stojanović, Haris Nikšić, Katarina Šavikin, Dušanka Kitić

“…The berry juice showed a greater ability for scavenging free radicals, whereas the waste better inhibited lipid peroxidation. …”
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